Tuesday, 19 May 2015

The Ethiopian community in Israel is to
be congratulated for refusing yesterday to take the example of many in the community of black people in the United
States, where 30% of black males have at one time or another been in
prison (1 in 12 presently), and where throughout a lifetime, a black male has a 1 in 21
chance of dying violently.

Israel is not the USA with Black people in
Israel not having the same sorry history as Black people in the USA.
Ethiopian Jews were not brought to Israel as slaves, but as free men
and women in order to fulfill their zionist aspirations, to save their lives. They were brought out of love and not hatred or
of any intention to humiliate or discriminate against them.

Israel put many of its citizens in
harms way by sending its armed forces and civilians into extremely
anti-Israel Sudan and Ethiopia in order to rescue the Ethiopian Jews from
starvation that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Every society has its problems and
Israel is not an exception, but racism has not, and will not define
the relations between black and white communities as it has done in
Europe and the USA. Ethiopian Jews were not rescued and brought to
Israel in order to be discriminated against and those who are
undoubtedly suffering now and have not yet succeeded in society must
realise that. They need help so that they too can succeed in Israel.
Much is done by the State within its limited budget and with the
bringing of this issue to the fore, much more will hopefully happen
to raise this community up.

Israel is not such a country in decline
and Ethiopian Jews are also not seldom successful in Israel, and will
undoubtedly continue to succeed. There are senior officers in the
IDF, scientists and doctors among the community. For example the head of the IDF
intervention team in Nepal was an Ethiopian Jewish doctor Dr. Avi Yitzchak. All is not
doom and gloom.

Ethiopian Jews at yesterday's
demonstration cleaerly showed that the violence seen in Baltimore and
Ferguson is not the example they want to follow. Looting and
destruction is the hallmark of a society in decline and offers no
hope for those who use it. Ethiopian Jews are protesting for their
future success, not in order to destroy the efforts of those who have
already succeeded before them.

The promotion of victimhood and
violence is alien to Israel, and thankfully even the Ethiopian
demonstrators who split off from the peaceful demonstration to seek
confrontation were open to reason and eventually returned to
demonstrate peacefully.

The destructive Malcolm X / Black
Panther style promotion of victimhood and fomenting of hatred is all
to easy. It is a reverse racism, as ugly as the phenomenon it
purports to condemn, and Israel last night rejected it. Thankfully
the Ethiopian Jews of Israel will not be seduced by hate and
destruction.

Enemies of Jews have never worried
about whether that Jew is black or white, Sephardi or Ashkenazi.
Being a Jew suffices, and Israel's wise leaders realise that, and
condemned the police who sparked off the demonstrations.

The rabbis talked of Sinat Chinam
(Unjustified/unreasonable/unreasoning hatreds and the destruction of
the Temple and warned against those who are determined to feed off a
cynical nursing of a sense of victimhood.

Ethiopian Jews refuse to be used as the
vanguard in a new attempt to split the Jewish nation apart.

They did not come to Israel in order to
be instrumental in its demise, but to build it along with Sephardi
and Asheknazi Jews who returned home at an earlier date.

The EU and George Tsoros sponsored
anarchists in Israel surely suffered a great defeat last night. As
with the cost of living protests a couple of years ago, Israel's
enemies fish in troubled waters but Israel is stronger and its people
will not be corralled into the self-destructive behaviour seen abroad
that Israel's enemies would have it do.